Jockey Cory Parish only found out he had the ride on Boom Time earlier in the week.

"(I'm) over the moon. You always wish for these things to happen but you never know they are going to. I have just done that today," he said on Saturday.

"David [Hayes] … he had the faith to put me on. I just said all I wanted to do was repay him at some stage and I have done that today."

The track had favoured front-runners all day, and aside from Sir Isaac Newton so it proved. A number of the expected leading chances left themselves too much to do.

The Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman-trained Bonneval was in danger of missing the race earlier in the week after suffering cuts to her leg following last Saturday's Caulfield Stakes.

However she recovered to take her place in the field, with gun jockey Kerrin McEvoy in the saddle.

McEvoy was looking to round out an incredible week after he rode Redzel to victory in the $10 million sprint race The Everest last Saturday, then backed up on Sunday to win the Cranbourne Cup on board Folkswood, and added the Blue Sapphire Stakes at Flemington on Wednesday on Formality.

However Bonneval was stuck at the back of the field and was never in contention and reportedly pulled up lame after the race, while other fancies like Amelie's Star faded well out of it.

English raider Marmelo — the winner of this year's Prix Kergorlay at Deauville over 3,000m — came home strongly for sixth in an excellent Melbourne Cup trial.

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